So the Russian partner, Algalarov, the money guy... he is Emin Algalarov's dad. Emin Algalarov and his manager (Goldstone) set up the June 9 meeting with DJTjr and the Russian spy with the computer hacking talent. Remember, later that day Trump said in a rally "I hope Russia releases her 33000 missing emails!"? (Algalarov and Trump ran the Miss Universe pageant together in Moscow. That is when they first started talk of Trump tower. Probably also when they started talk of fucking over our democracy.)
The bank that promised to fund the project, Sberbank, is Putin/state owned. Obama put them under sanctions in 2014.
They guy Cohen reached out to in his email of January 2016 asking for help? Peskov. Putin confidante, Kremlin spokesperson. You might remember him from the Steele dossier. He was the guy Putin put in charge of gathering kompromat on Hillary Clinton. The Steele dossier alleges that this dossier of kompromat was handed over to Trump campaign in June 2016. Yep, probs at the DJTjr meeting. (Peskov was also probably in charge of the entire hacking/disinformation campaign, both here and in Turkey. No doubt it was a coincidence that Peskov was in NY the days surrounding the election.).
The whole group of them are sloppy and stupid. What kind of a KGB guy is this sort of sloppy?
The oligarchs are going to be so pissed at Putin. All this $, time and effort.
FINCEN is cracking down hard on their luxury real estate money laundering schemes, so their NY and FLA investments are going to lose value quick when that market crashes. Then where will they stash their dirty $Bs?
Tougher sanctions than Magnitsky Act, with no hope of lfiting them.
All those dreams of $Bs from Rosneft raping the planet... down the tubes.
When Trump goes down, maybe Putin will end up sitting in a cage in the middle of some court room in Russia, then thrown into a dungeon, never to be heard from again.
*And, I don't think it will be President Pence, either.
During the campaign:
[INDENT] Stopping in at Pierce's Pitt Bar-B-Que in Williamsburg, VA to visit with Virginians and enjoy a pulled pork sandwich
[/INDENT] (See who he's sitting with? Bottom pic on the right. That guy goes way back with Manafort and the treason gang. As a matter of fact, Manafort brought Pence into the campaign. And, Manafort is probably singing for his life. Literally, Putin will kill him for this shit show.)